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Dogville

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Dogville	label	Dogville
Dogville	page	Dogville
Dogville	comment	Dogville is a 2003 minimalist drama film directed by Lars von Trier and starring, among others, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Harriet Andersson and Lauren Bacall. It's based on the poem "Jenny die Seeräuberbraut" ("Pirate Jenny" or "The Black Freighter") from Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. It's also inspired, in part, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play The Visit. It is very, very hard to watch, and not for kids, despite getting a 12+ rating in some countries.The story focuses around Grace, a woman running from The Mafia, who stumbles upon the tiny village of Dogville and is found by Thomas Edison, Junior (no relation). Grace and Tom convince the townsfolk of Dogville to let her stay in exchange for her performing odd jobs around town. As she finds jobs to perform for each resident, Grace soon gets to know all them, but her role as a subservient outsider gradually pushes her relationship with the town into dark territory.The film is distinctive for being shot on a single sound stage, with the sets drawn on the floor and only a bare minimum of props visible. The minimalist aspects of the film, like the plot, are based on Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre: Brecht once said a play never needs to be more complicated than "a man on a street corner re-enacting an accident for a crowd". He also stated that an actor should always be presented as themselves playing a character instead of as a character, to prevent total immersion, and to encourage critical reception. It shows.The film is the first installment of a planned (and currently unfinished) "Land of Opportunities" trilogy, all sharing the same visual style and plots highly critical of American culture. The second installment, Manderlay, takes place in the Deep South and comments on racism. It's based in part on Brecht's opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and replaces Kidman with Bryce Dallas Howard as Grace. The third installment, Wasington [sic], has yet to emerge from Development Hell, and most likely won't see the light of the day.
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Dogville / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Dogville / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Almost every man in Dogville tries to extort sexual favors from Grace.
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Dogville / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Dogville / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Chuck initially tries to emotionally blackmail Grace into having feelings for him. When it becomes apparent that she only views him as a good friend, he then goes to straight blackmail, using her need to hide from the cops to rape her. He continues to rape her while in the orchard, which Vera eventually finds out about. She's also raped by Ben, who she paid to help her escape town, only for him to bring her all the way back when Tom lies about her stealing his father's money from the medicine cabinet. By chapter 7, it becomes common practice for the other men in Dogville to rape her on a near-nightly basis.
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Dogville / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
Dogville / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: How Tom feels about having to choose between protecting Grace and siding with the people of Dogville. He's initially starkly in favor of protecting Grace, though it's implied early on that he's flaky. While he initially wanted to bring Chuck to justice after finding out that he forced himself on Grace, when the men of the town raping Grace becomes a regular occurrence, he does nothing about it, only taking it personally as if his own ego had been bruised. In another instance, when it comes out that he had stolen money from his father's medicine cabinet to help Grace escape, he pins the on Grace and claims that he only did so so that he can continue helping her, even though her taking the blame only made her situation far, far worse. In the end, he fully pushes in the direction of being on Dogville's side, forsaking Grace entirely and calling in the mobsters to collect her, not realizing that she's a Mafia Princess and that they're very protective of her. This ends up being his undoing in the end, and Grace makes sure to make his execution personal.
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Dogville / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Dogville / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: Heavily implied to be the reason Grace allows the Mafia to shoot and kill an innocent baby.
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Dogville / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Dogville / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Grace orders the deaths of all the townspeople and it's not hard to understand why she did it. Not just for revenge, not just because she decided that she cannot deny them responsibility anymore for what they did, but also to protect other people from falling prey to their cruelty and to make the world a better place.
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Dogville / int_220c23cb	type	Condescending Compassion
Dogville / int_220c23cb	comment	Condescending Compassion: At the end of the film, Grace's father confronts her, claiming that she exonerates others and does not hold them accountable for their misdeeds because she does not believe they can achieve the same high ethical standards as she can.
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Dogville / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Dogville / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Grace tells the mobsters to kill a kid named Jason first, then tell his mother that if she can hold back her tears they won't kill the rest. This comes after the woman in question smashed the dolls that Grace had bought with money she got from helping the townspeople, telling her that if she could hold back her tears she wouldn't destroy the rest.
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Dogville / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Dogville / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Jason and all the other kids in town are killed alongside the adults in the ending massacre. Even the baby is implicitly shot.
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Dogville / int_26fa627a	type	Elephant in the Living Room
Dogville / int_26fa627a	comment	Elephant in the Living Room: Mr. McKay is blind, everyone knows he's blind, yet nobody dares to mention such a thing in front of him.
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Dogville / int_282579b2	type	City in a Bottle
Dogville / int_282579b2	comment	City in a Bottle
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Dogville / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Dogville / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Vera.
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Dogville / int_2f2e3cfe	type	Interrogation by Vandalism
Dogville / int_2f2e3cfe	comment	Interrogation by Vandalism: The townspeople torture Grace by smashing her porcelain figures.
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Dogville / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Dogville / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Mafia, who are quite comfortable with murder and extortion, are horrified and outraged when they discover that Grace has been abused and chained to her bed. Of course, this is most likely because she was the daughter of their boss.
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Dogville / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Dogville / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Happens a LOT in this movie, and the movie showcases the dangers of Dog Kicking. Literally averted at the end, where Grace prevents the mafia from killing the dog.
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Dogville / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
Dogville / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Tom likes to see himself as such, though he isn't.
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Dogville / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Dogville / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Hard, hard to cynicism.
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Dogville / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Dogville / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: While everyone is miserably poor, Dogville, at least on the surface, appears to be a nice community with kind people that labor together to make ends meet. Though over the course of the movie, their true colors begin to come out.
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Dogville / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Dogville / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Liz thinks she's this. Grace becomes an actual victim of this at the hands of the town.
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Dogville / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Dogville / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Something of a common theme in Lars von Trier's work.
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Dogville / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
Dogville / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: While it seemed initially that the people of Dogville weren't all bad despite their initial somewhat reasonable mistrust of Grace, a newcomer with an implied criminal background, they turn out to be just as rotten as Chuck said by Chapter 6, in which they all begin to turn on, and mistreat her for different reasons.
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Dogville / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Dogville / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Grace herself, while not obvious because she's played by Nicole Kidman, is actually a teenager and therefore close to this, though not a true example. She fully embraces this when she orders the mafia to kill Jason and the other children to torture Vera. And it isn't as extreme as it sounds since as many have accurately pointed out, the kids were just as morally repulsive as the parents. She also has her father's men shoot a baby.
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Dogville / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Dogville / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Grace. By Chapter 5, the town begins to put her through the wringer and it only gets worse with every chapter. She's emotionally abused and raped repeatedly, effectively held hostage to the point of being chained down so that she cannot make anymore escape attempts, and the only man she believed she could trust turned against her to stand with her tormentors. It's not surprising what she ends up doing to them all in the end.
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Dogville / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Dogville / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: On many different levels. Including a textual example: when Grace quotes directly from "Pirate Jenny", she is genuinely shocked by what she says, and the narrator explains that Grace is wondering where such words would come from. Grace proceeds to accept her identity as a Jenny-character and act out the ending of "Pirate Jenny" almost to the letter.
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Dogville / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Dogville / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Grace and Liz got along swimmingly until Liz finds out that Tom and Grace have been sneaking around together. Her jealousy makes turn her back on Grace and treat her just as terribly as everyone else does.
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Dogville / int_549a92e7	type	Minimalism
Dogville / int_549a92e7	comment	Minimalism: in order to focus more on the characters and their actions and avoid immersion in the story (related to Bertolt Brecht ideas about epic theater) the entire village of Dogville drawn with chalk in the floor in a sound stage. This is particularly dramatic when Grace is raped. The audience can see the crime taking place - and can also see the townspeople milling around obliviously while it occurs.
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Dogville / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Dogville / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: The town children humiliate Grace by making a habit out of ringing the bells every time she's raped following in their parent's footsteps.
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Dogville / int_7458a1a4	type	Southern Gothic Satan
Dogville / int_7458a1a4	comment	Southern Gothic Satan: A twist on the concept in that Grace is far more Jesus than Satan, but her vulnerability still reveals the worst of the townfolk's natures, and by the end of it she decides that yes, everything in the town (except the dog) needs to be dead and/or on fire.
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Dogville / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Dogville / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech Most notable is the Mafia Don's one to Grace, calling her arrogant for holding impossible high standards for herself; and forgiving everyone else for failing to meet them. She realizes he's right, and tells the Mob to kill everyone.
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Dogville / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Dogville / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Grace. Made all the more ambiguous by the discussion just before the ending, where it suddenly becomes very clear that she's only a child.
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Dogville / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Dogville / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Implicit from the beginning, made real in Chapter 6.
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Dogville / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Dogville / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Any affection Grace had for Tom is completely gone by the end of the movie after she accepts that he allowed things to happen to her. It's because of this that she executes Tom herself.
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Dogville / int_8de2e803	type	Confession Cam
Dogville / int_8de2e803	comment	Confession Cam: Used by the director, so the actors could cope with the gruesome shooting. It's on the DVD extras.
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Dogville / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Dogville / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Grace orders her father's thugs to kill everyone in Dogville and burn it to the ground, and they oblige because her father gave her free rein to give orders. It is most certainly not their first time, but the people of the town are all such massive pricks that you don't feel sympathy for any of them when Grace orders the mobsters to kill them all.
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Dogville / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Dogville / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Or in this case, rich people are evil Averted with the townsfolk who manage to be evil while being miserably poor.
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Dogville / int_9d5dad72	type	Blaming the Victim
Dogville / int_9d5dad72	comment	Blaming the Victim: Vera blames and abuses Grace after finding out what happened between her and Chuck, as she believes Grace made advances toward him. Even when the news comes out that Chuck was the one who forced himself on Grace, she's still blames Grace and only becomes more vicious toward her.
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Dogville / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Dogville / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: While Grace leaves the majority of the Dogville massacre to her father's goons, she takes care of Tom herself due to how he betrayed her.
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Dogville / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Dogville / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Tom to Grace, as he's the only one who is consistently kind to Grace and hopes she feels the same way about him as he does her. And she does, initially until it's revealed that he's only reluctantly helping her for himself. In the end, he turns on her to side with Dogville, her tormentors.
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Dogville / int_aa5827b8	type	Middle-of-Nowhere Street
Dogville / int_aa5827b8	comment	Middle-of-Nowhere Street
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Dogville / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Dogville / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The narrator most of the time does some very cold remarks while narrating each chapter. Unlike many other examples, this sounds very humorously dark with very little, if any, fun in it.
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Dogville / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Dogville / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Any sort of goodwill the town had toward Grace is gone completely when the sheriff makes his second visit, putting up a "Wanted" poster that accuses Grace of being involved in a robbery. It's then the town begins to show its true colors toward her.
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Dogville / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dogville / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Grace is the dark secret.
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Dogville / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Dogville / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Downplayed Trope, given how little we see of their dynamic onscreen. That said, Grace's father's first reaction to her running away was to shoot at her, something Grace has said he has done before. She even thinks he's going to kill her when he pulls up, which she calmly appears to accept, only for him to say he wants to finish the conversation they had that caused her to flee in the first place.
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Dogville / int_b186ba26	type	Premiseville
Dogville / int_b186ba26	comment	Premise Ville: "Dogville," the setting of the film. The actual dog in Dogville is thematically important.
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Dogville / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Dogville / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Tom betraying Grace by calling up the mobsters ends up being his undoing, as in the end, Grace has the whole town executed to prevent another innocent soul from being tormented by them. She also makes his execution personal because of his betrayal. Even Grace herself, although her stupidity doesn’t get her killed in the end. When things begin going south, she had plenty of opportunity to escape the way she came before they made her physically incapable of escaping, but stayed out of stubbornness and her own sense of moral superiority to the residents of Dogville, prompting her to forgive them. As well, when given the choice to leave with her father, who was the leader of the Mafia, an organization almost no better than Dogville but will guarantee some level of power and control over her life, or stay in Dogville, powerless and certain to be abused by her tormentors, likely even more so now that they know her origins, Grace almost chooses to stay out of spite for her father.
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Dogville / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Dogville / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: It takes a while for Grace to realize, but Tom's more concerned about his philosophical "illustration" than he is about her. He even expects Grace, who had by that point been put through the wringer and raped repeatedly, to comfort him sexually for all he's had to do for her.
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Dogville / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dogville / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Some lines in the film are directly lifted from "Pirate Jenny", most notably: "Nobody gonna sleep here...".
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Dogville / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Dogville / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Part of the reason the women in Dogville turn on Grace is because they perceive her as being promiscuous and continue to perceive her this way even when it becomes clear that she's being abused sexually.
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Dogville / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Dogville / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Grace throughout the whole play. She offers inspiration and kindness, asking only to be allowed to help others and live peacefully among them. Eventually, she suffers for the sins of others and even ends up lugging around a cross analog. In the end she's offered up as a sacrifice by the towns people and her father shows up to save her. Then it's all turned on its head when he talks her OUT of turning the other cheek any longer and she has the town wiped out for what they did to her.
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Dogville / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Dogville / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Chuck is never quite convinced Grace is what she seems she is. At the end he's right.
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Dogville / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Dogville / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: The gangsters all wear one.
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Dogville / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
Dogville / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Averted; At the end of the massacre, Grace decides to spare the town dog.
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Dogville / int_d371868b	type	Precious Puppy
Dogville / int_d371868b	comment	Precious Puppy: Moses the dog, who is the only survivor of the massacre. It also helps he ran away when things went From Bad to Worse.
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Dogville / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Dogville / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The townsfolk find it increasingly easy to rationalize and justify their increasingly exploitative and abusive treatment of Grace because of her supposedly being connected to a robbery. Chuck foreshadows the evils of the people of Dogville long before their true colors begin to show through. He also ends up taking advantage of her when Grace expresses that she just sees him as a good friend, initiating the practice of the townspeople sexually assaulting her on a near nightly basis and making it clear that he’s no better than the people he despises. The Mafia Don calls Grace one as part of "The Reason You Suck" Speech he gives her. He argues that refusing to condemn others for behaving like monsters while holding herself to impossibly high moral standards, is not magnanimous, it's condescending and shows she thinks of herself as better than everyone else.
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Dogville / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Dogville / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Despite knowing nothing of what happened to her in Dogville, the conversation Grace's father wanted to finish with her that prompted her to escape into Dogville in the first place just happened to be the wake-up call she needed to decide to seek vengeance on the towns residents for their transgressions against her. It's justified in this instance given that the entire movie is a metaphor.
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Dogville / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Dogville / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Ben Henson, no matter how much he studies, he continues to be as dumb as a doorknob.
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Dogville / int_e2f13529	type	World of Jerkass
Dogville / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: The entire town of Dogville is this; there is not a single redeemable character and quite fittingly, the citizens deserved to be massacred after their horrible treatment to Grace.
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Dogville / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Dogville / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The whole townsfolk population. Seriously, no one is even a bit likable not even Tom when he allows Dogville to continue to abuse Grace. In the end, he abandons her completely.
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Dogville / int_eb253679	type	Dirty Kid
Dogville / int_eb253679	comment	Dirty Kid: Jason. He loves to sit on Grace's lap and also asks her to spank him for being bad.
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Dogville / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Dogville / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Grace does nothing but good deeds for the citizens, who in turn are Ungrateful Bastards who constantly expect more and later abuse and enslave her. Later deconstructed as it turns out Grace is a Mafia Princess and orders everyone in the town killed except for the one citizen who thought highly of her: Moses the dog.
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Dogville / int_ebb900a7	type	Resignations Not Accepted
Dogville / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: Subverted. Although Grace is held captive and her attempts to leave just lead her right back to the village, it turns out to be the result of her own stubborn decisions.
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Dogville / int_ec3ff1f7	type	In Which a Trope Is Described
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Dogville / int_ef2d2bae	type	Mafia Princess
Dogville / int_ef2d2bae	comment	Mafia Princess: Grace turns out to be one.
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Dogville / int_f46eebb	type	Betrayal by Inaction
Dogville / int_f46eebb	comment	Betrayal by Inaction: Tom eventually becomes aware of Grace's mistreatment, such as her being raped on a nightly basis by the other male residents of Dogville, but does nothing to stop it. Despite this, Grace continues to believe in and trust him up until he outright abandons her completely. Grace makes his execution personal by shooting him with her own gun.
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Dogville / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Dogville / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Boy, does she. Grace has everyone in Dogville executed save for the town dog, Moses.
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Dogville / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Dogville / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: A quite literal example.
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Dogville	hasFeature	Gangster Fiction / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	In Which a Trope Is Described / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	International Coproduction / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Mafia Princess / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Minimalism / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Narrating the Obvious / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Premiseville / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Put Them All Out of My Misery / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Sexual Extortion / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Small, Secluded World / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Southern Gothic Satan / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Stupid Good / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	The Great Depression / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	The Philosopher / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	The Tall Dark Stranger / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	Ungrateful Townsfolk / int_98375510
Dogville	hasFeature	World Limited to the Plot / int_98375510

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